Warren Buffett was born in 1930, right in the middle of the Great Depression. He bought his first stock at just 11 years of age, and by 1965, he was operating his own investment company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B), which he still runs today. 

Buffett has successfully navigated every post-Depression crisis, and he has created value for his investors through every evolution of the U.S. economy. He watched General Motors become the world's most valuable company in 1955 when it amassed a $10 billion market capitalization. He was also around when General Electric snatched that title with a $100 billion valuation in 1995. 

Today, Berkshire is one of the largest single investors in tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018. Apple has since been joined by tech companies Microsoft, Amazon, Google parent Alphabet, and Nvidia, which have all amassed valuations of $1 trillion or more. 

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